You know the old routine – You get a new machine and then you spend weeks looking for and installing all the applications, tools, utilities, etc that you had on your old computer that made you so productive. There is always that utility that you use once in a while but you just can’t seem to find it.
I recently bought a new computer and decided to make a list of all the software I installed on the new computer so that I’m ready to do this again for my next machine. I wish I had discovered Belarc Advisor before I rebuilt my old desktop as a Linux (Ubuntu) desktop. So here is a fairly complete list of what’s installed on my machine and if you see something that I should have, please leave me a comment:
The Essentials
- Windows XP Media Center
- Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003
- McAfee VirusScan & Personal Firewall
Development
- Java 1.4.x and 1.5.x SDK
- IntelliJ IDEA
- BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 and 9.2
- Apache Webserver
- Apache Tomcat 5.5
- Glassfish
- WebLogic Workshop Studio (NitroX M7 based on Eclipse 3.2)
- NetBeans 5.5 Beta
- MySQL 5.0 database server
- MySQL Administrator, MySQL QueryBrowser and MySQL Workbench
- DbVisualizer
- XAMPP (LAMP for Windows – PHP, Perl, Apache, MySQL)
- Aptana – HTML, CSS IDE based on Eclipse
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
- Ruby for Windows
Audio, Video & Graphics
- Nero 7 Ultra Edition
- Google Picassa
- Paint.NET – Photo manipulation software
- PIXELA ImageMixer for the Sony DVD HandyCam
- iTunes
- RealPlayer
- Microsoft Media Player 10
Browsers & Extensions
- Internet Explorer
- Firefox (List of extensions below)
- Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.3.0.4
- Adblock Plus 0.7.1.2
- All-In-One Sidebar 0.6.4
- Compact Library Extension Organizer (CLEO) 1.0
- Copy All Urls 0.6.2
- del.icio.us 1.1
- DOM Inspector 1.8.0.7
- Download Statusbar 0.9.4.1
- FireBug 0.4
- Firefox Extension Backup Extension (FEBE) 3.0
- Firefox Showcase 0.8.0.2
- Gmail Skins 0.9.6
- Google Browser Sync 1.2.20060911.3
- Google Send to Phone 0.4
- Google Toolbar for Firefox 2.1.20060807W
- IE View Lite 1.2.5
- Image Zoom 0.2.7
- InfoLister 0.9e
- Live HTTP Headers 0.12
- PDF Download 0.7.5
- Professor X 0.4
- ScrapBook 1.2.0.4
- Tab Mix Plus 0.3.0.5
- Tabbrowser Preferences 1.2.8.9
- Tails 0.3.4
- Talkback 1.5.0.7
- TinyUrl Creator 1.0.1
- Update Notifier 0.1.4
- Web Developer 1.0.2
- X-Ray 0.8
- Opera
Utilities
- Ultraedit (I know there are quality free editors out there but I’m just too used to UltraEdit)
- FeedDemon – The BEST RSS reader for Windows
- 7-Zip
- Cygwin – UNIX shell and more for Windows
- Sysinternals (DiskMon, FileMon, Process Explorer, RegMon & pretty much every other utility on that site)
- Putty – SSH client for windows
- WinSCP
- Microsoft Money
- Avvenu – Remote access to your computer
- QuickResNT
- KeePass Password Safe
- Free Download Manager
- Google Earth
- Google Talk
- Yahoo Messenger
- MSN Messenger
- Jungle Disk
- Lavasoft Ad-Aware
- Flickr Uploadr
- CCleaner
- VNC Server & Client
- Microsoft Virtual PC
- TortoiseSVN – Subversion for Windows
- Auslogics Disk Defrag
- TaskSwitchXP – ALT-TAB manager for Windows
- Windows Live Writer
- Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Yahoo Widgets
- Skype
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Servant Salamander (shareware) and Lanchy (freeware) are musts for me.
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Hi there and thanks. Servant Salamander looks interesting but Launchy looks pretty useful. I’ll download and give it a shot. Thanks.
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wow, the amount of google fascism in this list is pretty high
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Its amazing to see the same software again and again on developer machines. IMO you can see the skills of a developer from their installed software 🙂
IDEA, DBVis, Ultraedit, MySQL, Tomcat, Apache HTTP, Glassfish, it all sounds so famillar. The only thing one can really live without are all those MySQL GUI Tools. IMO they are crap and are not worth using them.
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Hi Marc and thanks. I use DbVisualizer for most database interactions but I still do use the MySQL Administrator for scheduled backups to my local desktop. They have some redeeming value 🙂
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Maybe I missed it in your list (then again you may not choose to use it), but I did not see anything for a PGP Key?
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Hi Mark. You’re right – I did forget it off the list. I use WinPT, which is a free GUI front end for GnuPG. Works great and allows me to use it with Outlook, GMail and really anything else I want.
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Is this the same list of software you’re running since you upgraded to Vista? I just got a new laptop running Vista and I’m worried about software incompatibilities.
Thanks… Erik
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I notice that you have Yahoo, MSN, and Google messengers on the list, to shorten time, space, and memory, just use pidgin or digsby, both are great (and free, pidgin is open source) multi client im apps
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